Network Opinion Poll See the results
Last month we debated the Network issue with our Network Opinion Poll. You’ll hear more on this topic from Clive Bennett over the coming months but first see the results:
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Some comments were also left by those responding
“I think the answer to Q3 needed more options. i am certainly not opposed to a network as a matter of principle, but I must say that a lot of work will need to be done. I am particularly concerned about how to institute, maintain and monitor a cross border quality control system. No doubt a lot of thought has, and will be, devoted to this, but I do not yet have a feel as to how it would work. Will an opportunity be taken at the UK and Ireland AGM to explain it?”
“It would be useful if somebody actually set out what the legal effect of being in a network is as regards to ability to work on audits re. Independence etc., the risk of collective legal action against the network, the cost of the network development and infrastructure, the proposed cost of raising name awareness. The potential upside I understand. What will the position for firms or indeed regions that do not want to be networked? As this gathers uninformed momentum we risk frightening off some existing or potential members, unless that is the point network or leave?”
“Through the unity of firms in a network, the strength of each firm will be greater.”
“In the USA the liability question is unsettled. Without certainty on how the acts of other member firms would affect ours we could not commit to such an arrangement.”
“Without a marketable brand, the association is nothing. We shall fail to attract valid new members and lose the valid ones we already have.”
“How would a network worldwide work?”
“We are part of a public company and would be precluded from participating in a network.”
Want to know more?
If you would like to know more or discuss this topic further you can meet our CEO, Clive Bennett, at the African Area meeting in Accra next week, the East European Circle Meeting in Moscow next month, or the AGM in Sydney in October. You can also email him on [email protected]